Label-holder.



M. JOACHIMSON. LABEL HOLDER. APPLIOATIOK FILED PEB.11, 19Q7.

905,882. Patent d Dec. 8,1908.

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MARTIN JOAGHIMSON, OFVNEW YORK, NY.

LABEL-HOLDER.

' Specification of Lett ers Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

Application filed February 11, 1907. SerialNo. 356,886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN JOAOHIMSON, a citizen of the United States,and resident of the city of New York, in the county of New York andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful ImprovementsinLabel-Holders, of which the following is a speciiication.

The present invention relates to improvements in devices for storinglabels or similar articles so that one of each kind of the labels is atall times easily obtainable, while the rest of the same are stored inreceptacles and saved against careless waste and squandery and securedfrom being soiled.

The invention is illustrated in the several figures of the drawings, inwhich Figure 1 represents a front elevationof a rack, containing anumberof the storage receptacles for labels, Fig. 2 a side view of the deviceshown in Fig. 1, Fig; 3' afront view of a pair of individual recetacles, one of the same in part broken away," ig94 a verticalcross-section of the receptacle, Fig. 5 a top view of the same, andFigs. 6, 7 and 8, are views, similar to Figs. 3, 4 and 5, of a modifieddevice.

A base plate 1 is provided with a number of standards or uprights 2,suitable to receive and hold the label receptacles 3, arranged in setsand held on the standards 2 by means of brackets 4. Each set ofreceptacles is closed with a common plate 5 at the rear end of the setof receptacles and each individual receptacle is provided with a nameplate 6. The top-plate 7 shows a lip 8 at the front end of thereceptacle and an opening 9 for receiving the finger, in order to removethe uppermost label of the stack of labels within the receptacle. At therear end of the top plate 7 and secured to the underside thereof, is arib or wire 10 for the purpose of keeping the rear end of the labelsfrom contact with the lower face of the top plate 7 for a purposehereinafter to be described. The front plate 11 of each receptacle iscut off at its top at 12 and provided with an adjustable resilientWasher 13, fastened to the front plate by means of a screw 14. Anadjustable bottom plate 15 supports the stack of labels within thereceptacle and is held in position, corresponding to the number oflabels contained in the receptacle, by means of torsional springs 16 and17. The spring 16, supporting the front end of the bottom, is of greaterstrength than the spring supporting the rear end, and may consist eitherof a spring of stronger material, or in the case of the same material ofa spring having a greater number of coiled portions of greater torsionalstrength, or even of a plurality of springs.

It will be seen that the labels are held in thereceptacle in a way thatgreater pressure is exerted atthe front end thereof than at the rearend, and it will be further noticed that in case the finger is insertedinto the opening 9 of the top plate 7 and the uppermost label movedforward, its rear end will be removed from under the rib or wire 9 andthereby practically freed from the pressure of the s'prin 17 It willthen be possible to ush the la el through the opening formed y the lip 8and the washer 13, sothatthe label ma be ripped and removed from thereceptac e wit outdanger of tearing it.

,The Washer13 having an elongated slot 2 may be adjusted inrelation tothe lip 8 of the top plate 7,-according 'to'thethickness of'the paper ofwhich the labels are made. The formation of the top of the front plateis such that there is substantially only one point of contact betweenthe washer 13, the label and the underside of the lip 8, so that nofriction of any great degree is to be overcome by removing the labelfrom its receptacle.

The modification, shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 8, comprises an auxiliareceptacle or holder 18, consisting of a top ate and a front late,similar to the top an front plate of t e receptacle, illustrated in Fis. 3, 4 and 5, and two side plates joined to t e others to form areceptacle, shown in Fig. 7, while this auxiliary receptacle is movablyinclosed in the outer receptacle 3 and provided with springs 19, pressina ainst the top of the outer receptacle, w ie to is provided with anopening 20, correspon ing to the opening 9 of the top plate of theauxiliary receptacle. The front plate of the auxiliary receptacle isprovided with a resilient tongue 21, having substantially the samefunction as the washer 13. The arrangement of individual sets ofreceptacles into a row of sets, is brought about by interlockingtongues, one of which 22, at the rear of the top plate of the outer'receptacle and another one 23, at the front of the bottom plate of saidreceptacle, so that a step by step arrangementas it wereis built by theinterlocking of the rows of the receptacles. The spring pressure exertedupon the labels, held in the auxiliary receptacle, is brought about bysimilar means as the one heretofore described, and since the auxiliaryreceptacle is under the pressure of the springs 16 and 17 as well as thestack of labels, the uppermost of the labels will always coincide withthe dispensing opening, formed by the tongue 21 and the lip 8,irrespective what pressure will be exerted upon the labels by the fingerat the time of removing a label.

As new and useful is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patentof the United States 1. The combination with a receptacle adapted tocontain labels or similar articles, of an auxiliary receptacle in saidfirst receptacle and comprising a top-plate having an aperture andfront-plate forming a feeding aperture with said top-plate, resilientmeans between said top-plate and the cover of said first receptacle, asupport for said labels, and resilient means between said support andthe bottom of said first receptacle.

2. The combination with a receptacle adapted to contain labels orsimilar articles, of an auxiliary receptacle in said first receptacleand comprising a top plate having an aperture and a front-plate forminga feeding aperture with said top-plate, a resilient means I on saidfront-plate and adapted to determine one of the dimensions'of saidfeeding a erture, resilient means between said top-p ate and the coverof said first receptacle, a support for said labels, and resilient meansbetween said support and the bottom of said first receptacle.

3. The combination with a receptacle adapted to contain labels orsimilar articles, of an auxiliary receptacle in said first receptacleand comprising a top-plate having an aperture and a front plate forminga feeding aperture with said top-plate, resilient means between saidtop-plate and the cover of said first receptacle, a support for saidlabels, and resilient means between said support and the bottom of saidfirst receptacle, said resilient A means exerting a greater pressure atone end of said support than at the opposite end.

4. The combination with a receptacle adapted to contain labels orsimilar articles, of a top-plate having an aperture, a feeding apertureat the front of said receptacle, means suited to support a stack of saidlabels, and a plurality of torsional springs carrying said supportingmeans and adapted to exert greater pressure at one end of saidsupporting means than at the opposite end.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York,this 4th day of February, A. D. 1907.

MARTIN JOACHIMSON.

